Bill Belichick shouldn't be having any financial difficulty during the NFL lockout, and there are well more than a million reasons for it. In Forbes magazine's annual rankings of the highest-paid coaches in professional sports, the New England Patriots' boss comes in at No. 1 with an estimated annual salary of $7.5 million.

Belichick jumps to the top of the list in the wake of Phil Jackson's decision to walk away as coach of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers. He also leads a group of seven NFL coaches in all who made the top 10.

The other three on the list are all NBA coaches: the Celtics' Doc Rivers ($7 million, the Spurs' Gregg Popovich ($6 million) and the Knicks' Mike D'Antoni ($6 million).

Between Belichick, Shanahan, Coughlin and Tomlin, they have guided their teams to a combined seven Super Bowl victories in the past 14 years. The most recent coach to win a ring, the Packers' Mike McCarthy, got an extension and a bump to $5 million annually a month after Super Bowl XLV.